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A federal judge's nearly yearlong effort to investigate whether the Trump administration had violated his order had become a point of contention in the president's battles with the courts.
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The lead U.S. negotiator, Vice President JD Vance, has sought a moratorium on uranium enrichment of at least 20 years. Tehran's offer would last up to five.
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Aides to Greg Abbott and Gavin Newsom were weighing whether to call quick elections to replace two House members accused of sexual misconduct.
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Three Republican-led committees, responding to a New York Times report this month, accused the Democratic fund-raising organization of withholding documents from a subpoena request.
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More than a dozen American warships positioned in the Gulf of Oman and Arabian Sea are acting as a "net," officials said. None of the encounters has required escalation.
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BBC Wales' Gareth Lewis outlines the key details from the Welsh Lib Dem Senedd election manifesto.
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State Democrats butted heads over a gerrymandering plan that could have eliminated the state's lone Republican seat in the U.S. House.
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Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Jane Dodds launched her party's manifesto for the Senedd election on Tuesday.
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The first-ever pope from the United States is clashing with the White House. Pope Leo XIV, head of the Catholic Church, which counts more than a billion people in the world as its members, has spoken out forcefully against war. He said in his Palm Sunday address that Jesus "does not listen to the prayers of those who wage war … [whose] hands are full of blood." In response, President Donald Trump said Pope Leo is "weak on crime, and terrible for foreign policy." Trump is also under fire for sharing an AI-generated image that appears to show himself as Jesus Christ. Pressed about the controversy in an interview on Fox News, Trump's Catholic Vice President JD Vance said the pope should "stick to matters of morality."
"I don't know any other more pressing moral issues than war and peace, taking care of the poor, the sick, the homeless, the stranger," says Father James Martin, a writer and Jesuit priest. "I don't understand how Vice President Vance cannot see that war is a moral issue. … This idea that some people don't deserve mercy is completely against the Christian message."
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Why no one is surprised when another member of Congress is accused of sexual misconduct.
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Chief U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg of D.C. has clashed with the Trump administration over dozens of Venezuelan migrants' removals to a prison in El Salvador.
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A long-awaited report from the Justice Department's "Weaponization Working Group" alleges misuse of the Face Act. But the evidence is limited, and the Trump administration has itself been criticized for misusing law enforcement.
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A new law would require developers to fund, build, or expand existing GP surgeries, the party says.
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She joins other former Republicans and Trump administration officials running for office as critics of the president. The district would open up if voters approve a new map.
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A survey from Ipsos and Reuters, released on Tuesday, found few Americans — 24 percent — think the war in Iran has been worth the costs and benefits.
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The report is part of the president's effort to claim anti-conservative and anti-Christian biases in federal law enforcement, even as he pushes to wield the legal system against his political enemies.
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Destroying bridges and power plants would violate international law and expose service members to prosecution.
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But without international backing, the blockade risks upending Washington's already fragile cease-fire with Tehran.
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The departures of a Democrat and Republican would not alter the balance of power in the House, where the GOP holds a razor-thin majority.
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The protesters sat in the middle of Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan and blocked traffic for about an hour.
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The U.S. military has provided few details on how it might carry out President Trump's orders as he seeks to pressure Tehran on a peace deal. But history and established practices offer some clues.
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The third term Republican lawmaker is accused of coercing a staff member into a sexual relationship.
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For Democrats, the drama is reverberating well beyond the state.
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The federal government is preparing to begin automatically registering eligible U.S. men ages 18 to 26 for the military draft pool. The U.S. hasn't had a military draft since 1973, but it still maintains a registry of eligible men in case the draft is restored. New rules around automatic military draft registration were tucked into the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act.
We are joined by Edward Hasbrouck, an organizer with the Anti-Draft Coalition, which opposes the plan for automatic draft registration and is calling for repeal of the Military Selective Service Act. "The important thing is to take the draft off the table, remove it from the arsenal of war planning. Forcing the government to confront the question, before they make wars, of whether enough people will fight them actually constrains wars before they happen," says Hasbrouck.
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The Trump administration has fired six more immigration judges in its effort to reshape immigration policy and the immigration courts. Two of the fired judges, Roopal Patel and Nina Froes, had each dismissed high-profile cases brought by the government against international students who had advocated for Palestinian rights, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi. Around 100 immigration judges have been fired by the Trump administration. Firings in previous administrations were rare.
The Trump administration is eroding "the concept of procedural due process, the idea that you get to have a hearing in the United States" by "firing judges that it perceived as being opposed to the administration's stated goal to deport as many people as possible with the least amount of due process possible," says Carmen Maria Rey Caldas, a former immigration judge in New York who was fired in August.
The firing of so many immigration judges is also "egregious" because noncitizens are "going to be subject to the ruling of judges that are under pressure," says Cyrus Mehta, an attorney who represents Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi.
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Ship traffic has been halted again in the Strait of Hormuz after President Trump ordered the U.S. military to begin a naval blockade of all Iranian ports and coastal areas starting Monday at 10 a.m. ET. Iran denounced Trump's move as an illegal act amounting to "piracy" and has threatened to strike Gulf ports in retaliation. Trump ordered the blockade after the U.S. and Iran failed to reach a deal to end the war following 21 hours of talks in Islamabad, Pakistan. Global oil prices jumped after Trump announced the blockade.
Ervand Abrahamian, professor emeritus of history at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, predicts "the U.S. will start bombing Iranian oil installations. Iran will retaliate by bombing the Gulf oil installations, gas installations. The oil prices then could really zoom up. Some people expect it to reach $200 a barrel." Abrahamian warns that soaring energy prices will have long-term implications for the world economy.
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Yvette Cooper is chairing a virtual summit looking at ways to get energy exports moving through the shipping lane.
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A group representing the bereaved of Grenfell call Simon Dudley's comments "ignorant and callous".
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Activists warned Friday that the world is rapidly running out of time to substantially change energy usage and curb global warming as the "deadline" for action fell.
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